Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels - Couverture souple

Lowry MD., Thomas P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803280246 ISBN 13 : 9780803280243

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2003

Synopsis

During the Civil War, a Union colonel was five times more likely to be court-martialed than a private. Worse, courts-martial of all ranks increased by 400 percent in the winter months. Among the court-martialed transgressors presented in this volume are an officer nicknamed "Stumpy" because he tended to hide behind tree stumps during combat and a man tried for calling his superior a "miserable reptile." The gallery of offenders also includes a Vermont colonel who became a chloroform addict and a New York colonel who rode his horse into a barroom, ordered a brandy for himself and one for his horse, then fired his pistol through the ceiling. The stories of fifty misdeeds, along with a statistical exploration of twenty-two thousand other courts-martial, provide a pioneering study of the little-known world of Civil War misbehavior and clarify the often-bewildering dynamics between volunteer soldiers and their professional superiors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas P. Lowry is a retired associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of several books, including The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War and The Civil War Bawdy Houses of Washington D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803280246
• ISBN 13: 9780803280243
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
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